I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing things and not allowing things outside of myself to distract me or bother me or affect me in any way.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

If the ravens leave the Tower, Britain will fall.

GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

I am open to squeezing in whatever I can in this wonderful life. Instead of asking, "Is that all there is?" I seem, lately, to be always saying, "Wow!"

And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.

Whatever your hands find to do, you must do with all your heart.

Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.

I want to just do my job and do it well.